Searched for
PATRIARCHY IN LOCAL GOVERNANCE
Banned in Kuwait, 'Barbie' sparks delight, and anger, in Saudi ArabiaThe movie "Barbie" made its regional debut in many Saudi Arabian movie theaters last weekend, gaining criticism by many in the Middle East ...
14 Aug, 2023, 10.54 AM IST
Anushka Sharma’s Clean Slate Filmz to launch female-focused streaming platformThe company said that Clean OTT content will comprise international and regional projects across films, web series, and docu-series. They w...
01 Mar, 2022, 05.24 PM IST
View: There’s no correlation between female empowerment and age of marriageDespite the government’s claim of special priority to women, their position keeps deteriorating because the deep social prejudices cannot b...
28 Dec, 2021, 11.56 PM IST
Why did ‘Kerala model’ fail so spectacularly? Here are three possible reasonsOver a year later, the myth-making around the ‘Kerala model’ continues. Over the last week, the state has accounted for 49% of all new Covi...
03 Aug, 2021, 12.05 AM IST
Tashigang: 36 voters at world's highest polling boothAt Tashigang, a village at an altitude of 4,650 metres in Lahaul & Spiti, polling was a celebration of its newfound status.
05 Jun, 2019, 04.08 PM IST
Twitter apologises for Jack Dorsey's placard, users demand legal actionTwitter’s legal policy head Vijaya Gadde apologised after users expressed outrage against its founder Jack Dorsey holding a placard reading...
21 Nov, 2018, 08.12 AM IST
Nuns in Kerala are taking on the influential Catholic Church for justiceThe five sisters belong to the Missionaries of Jesus, a Latin Catholic order set up in Jalandhar in 1993, headquartered there and with thre...
16 Sep, 2018, 10.40 AM IST
HP Elections: There is no anti-incumbency, but BJP's campaign could tilt the balance in its favourBJP has overwhelmingly more firepower than Congress in HP and that was visible in the number of public rallies, party flags and in media ad...
12 Nov, 2017, 09.54 AM IST
Manual scavenging: This is caste violence, says filmmaker Divya BharathiFor her efforts and activism against manual scavenging, CPI (ML) activist Divya Bharathi was forced to be on the run till recently.
24 Sep, 2017, 06.10 PM IST
Love kills six times more Indians than terror attacksBetween 2001 and 2015, love was the officially recorded reason for 38,585 murders and culpable homicide cases. Government records also link...
02 Apr, 2017, 11.43 AM IST